Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-14
No Cause for Delay.
MARGARET, TEN, Jan. 10,

! MARIA RET, len, jail. H. 1891.
To the Editor OF the Gazette
In a recent editorial, THE GAZETTE
urges the state authorities to investigate
the truth of the reports of the condition
of the people of the counties asking relief
from the cOnSe quences of the drouth.
do not see how further investigation can
strengthen the evidence that great pub
! lie calamity has befallen the people Of
these counties, and that actual destitu-
ton and suffering exists. This fact, we
certainly think, has been authoritatively
ascertained by the action OF the county
| Judges, in convention assembled at Albany,
10 their solemn declarations, resolutions
and petitions. do not link it ques-
| ton for Investigation by the state author
tiles, further than to read the petitions
and resolutions of that convention. If
| the state authorities (the legislators cGn-
not believe the statemt hts OF the highest
Judicial officers in these counties, in the
name of heaven how are they to arrive ct
the facts? Must the lie legislature summon
the sufferers 10 austin To give testimony,
or must the members visit these homes
and view with their OWE eyes the dsstitu-
ton before they can act? Further
investigation, which is the burden of
THE GAZETTE'S article, is procrastina-
tiOu, and procraStinaton, in this case,
means untold suffering. 1t is case
where the testimony is al in, and the
only question with the legislature should
be the modus operandi of extending the
relief. One of the first acts of the legis-
lature should be the passage of relief
bill. In 1873 the crops il large portion
of the state of Kansas were entirely de-
stroYed by droutn and grassnoppers, and
q special session OF the Legislature
was convened TO provide for
the relief of the sufferers. Within ten
days of the convening of the legislature
an appropriation had been made and the
machinery OF an efficient system of relief
was in successful operation. 1t might DE
we'll for the Texas legislature to enact
this Kansas relief bill which was so effec-
tive IN relieving the destitute people in
that state. The fact that the state has
made provision for 8 systematic distribu-
ton of supplies 10 the actually needy,
through state and county relief com
mittees, the latter consisting of
the board of county commissioners, as
sured the people of the East and South !
that contributions would reach the desti- !
tute, and provisions, clothing, seed, |
grain, etc, poured into the state in such
that every want was supplied |
and notices were sent throughout the !
country to stop contributions.
But, say few so-called newspapers,
this adve rtising Of our destitute condi- |
ton will retard immigration and set the /
country back. Did the advertising of the !
drouth In Kansas in 1873 set her back and |
retard immigration? On the contrary, the |
following spring witnessed such q rush of |
into that drouth-stricken !
region as was never before known in |
the settlement of any agricultural section
of the country, and is now the home of
teeming thousands of well-to-do farmers.
These one-horse newspapers presume
upon the ignorance of pee pie when they
assert that immigrants will be scared
away from one of the finest agricultural
portions of the stste because a drouth
has prevailed and the new and unprepsred
tiers are reduced to suffering on that
account. Every person Of ordinary in
-elligence knows that drouths prevail in
Every newly settled country, and those
Who do not know this are not desirable,
ind it will be for the good of the country
% keep them scared away. CITIZEN.